Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 138: If We Have Such Integrity, We Are on the Same L

Three days later!

A fully recovered Shen Miaomiao returned to the company.

The first thing she did at work was to call a eting with all the senior executives of the project departnt to discuss the approval of the Titanfall derivative project!

Now, all functions of the official system had been unlocked.

The tactic of “main project profits sub-project losses” gave Shen Miaomiao new hope for losing money.

And APEX, as a derivative project of Titanfall, naturally beca the first sub-project entry in the complete official system.

It was also the perfect guinea pig for Shen Miaomiao to test “whether a sub-project can sustain losses while the main project is profitable.”

“Is everyone here? Let’s start the eting.”

In the Golden Wind eting room, Shen Miaomiao’s face was still a bit pale, but her spirits were good. She clapped her hands to signal the start of the eting.

However, Gu Sheng seed to have rembered sothing and raised his hand:

“Wait a mont, President Shen. I suddenly realized soone is missing.”

“Missing soone?” Shen Miaomiao glanced around.

Sister Chuchu, the three core executives led by Gu Sheng, along with Jiang Yun, Kailing, and Jiang Shan.

Wasn’t it always these people at etings? Who else could be missing?

“I suggest including Wang Xiaoming from the Operations Departnt in this approval eting,” Gu Sheng said.

“Since taking over PUBG’s operations, Manager Wang has been diligent and made rapid progress,”

“plus he deeply understands the demands and realities of large-scale multiplayer online competitive gas.”

“President Shen, what do you think?”

Oh—everyone from top to bottom is involved this ti.

It seems Gu Sheng still attaches great importance to the APEX derivative project.

Of course.

With the success of Titanfall as precedent, any sane person would try to ensure the derivative work matches the quality of the main ga.

Too bad I have the system, sorry Gu Sheng.

Shen Miaomiao thought inwardly.

Your Titanfall has already achieved fa and fortune. Let lose a bit on this little quiet sub-project as compensation.

Today, no matter if Wang Xiaoming cos or the emperor himself arrives, I will find a way to make it lose money!

She nodded: “Fine, invite Manager Wang to join.”

Gu Sheng smiled and nodded, then sent a ssage to Wang Xiaoming.

Soon after, Wang Xiaoming knocked on the eting room door, greeted everyone, and took his seat.

“Good, now that everyone is here, let’s start,” Shen Miaomiao said.

“Titanfall’s success is now undeniable,”

“We have already promised the derivative projects, and it’s ti to put them on the agenda,”

“I called everyone today to discuss the approval of the APEX project,”

“Including ga content, investnt, profit models, and so on,”

“Let’s have Director Gu start by talking about the ga content.”

Before the eting.

Or rather, last night when Gu Sheng accompanied her for the last IV drip, Shen Miaomiao had already asked him about the APEX project.

It was roughly settled.

Gu Sheng answered.

In fact, as early as the second week after Titanfall’s release, he had already redeed APEX from the system.

With Titanfall as a foundation, APEX no longer had the double emotion value unlocking debuff, needing only 400,000 emotion points to unlock.

What he needed to do next was make so minor revisions and modifications to match the motion-sensing pod ga, essentially “porting” it onto Yiyou X2.

“Alright,”

Gu Sheng nodded and said:

“As for APEX, I have already briefly explained it to the project departnt,”

“The main gaplay style continues to follow our hottest multiplayer project now—PUBG,”

“Battle royale, or ‘chicken dinner’ style.”

Hmm!

Good!

The mont she heard the ga style, Shen Miaomiao nodded vigorously!

During her few idle days at ho, she hadn’t been completely lying in bed doing nothing.

Whenever Gu Sheng was at work, she would sotis sneak into their shared study to catch up a bit.

Mainly to see what players currently expect from the Titanfall derivative.

Many believed that this ti, Titanfall’s multiplayer mode should lean more toward traditional competitive gaplay.

Two sides, smaller maps, fighting for control and energy points through kills, then summoning Titans upon reaching requirents.

A very basic ga mode.

Moreover, one of the flagship gas accompanying the Polar Bear third generation motion-sensing pod, produced by the Tianlang team, had already released a trailer for its ch mode in the first-person shooter ga “Smoke.”

Its gaplay mode was just like that.

After all, it was a top-tier big company with sufficient manpower and funds. The speed of reproducing a simple mode far outpaced Golden Wind.

However, limited by the settings of a first-generation FPS, “Smoke’s” ch mode lacked the shock and imrsion that Titanfall had.

Therefore, players still eagerly awaited Golden Wind to produce a truly authentic multiplayer derivative.

Shen Miaomiao feared they would just do a standard multiplayer mode.

But Gu Sheng was surprisingly conscientious!

He outright passed on the normal competitive mode and said “battle royale” right away!

Know this!

Currently, battle royale gas have poor reputations in the market!

Because too many companies are blindly following the trend!

After PUBG, almost every FPS ga carries so elent of chicken dinner style!

So make it a separate mode, so copy it entirely, like Glorious’ “Special Ops.”

With such severe homogenization, players inevitably suffer from aesthetic fatigue regarding this ga mode.

Most end up returning to PUBG.

After all, this original chicken dinner ga is well-optimized, has great gaplay feel, many events, and fast new map releases.

There is even a saying in the market now—chicken dinner gas were pioneered by PUBG, and the crown will forever be on PUBG’s head.

In this situation!

Choosing battle royale for Titanfall’s derivative seems inappropriate.

PUBG’s success is so overwhelming that even Golden Wind finds it hard to surpass.

Heaven helps !

Shen Miaomiao smiled broadly and nodded.

However!

She did not beco complacent!

Because knowing Gu Sheng, if he made any decision that seed irrational, it ant he definitely had a corresponding solution!

Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao asked:

“So about this ga… Director Gu, do you have any new visions?”

Bring out all your secret moves. This ti I want to understand thoroughly.

“A bit, it’s a moderate innovation,”

Gu Sheng smiled slightly and said:

“As everyone knows, battle royale gas now rely mainly on firearms with items as supplents, including PUBG,”

“But this ti, we plan to make so small adjustnts,”

“We will add ‘skills’ into the matches, drawing on RPG or MOBA gas, introduce unique heroes, and assign them corresponding skills.”

Hiss—

Just as expected!

Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao squinted slightly.

The kid really has a backup plan.

“How confident are you about this adjustnt?”

“Hard to say…”

Gu Sheng shook his head ambiguously.

It wasn’t humility but reality.

This is a parallel world.

The ga market landscape here differs from the previous life.

And after he arrived, the difference beca even more obvious.

In the previous life, why could APEX capture a large part of PUBG’s market from the content perspective?

Because APEX had great feel, good optimization, fast pace, and the added skills made the matches more interesting.

In terms of “fun,” APEX surpassed PUBG.

So in the previous life, it could compete with PUBG and even stand toe-to-toe at its peak.

But in this world!

The situation is different!

The feel that Pi Pi (an alternate na for APEX) was proud of has been matched by Gu Sheng’s personally tuned PUBG.

Pi Pi’s absolutely friendly optimization has also been matched by Gu Sheng’s tuned PUBG.

Pi Pi’s advantages have been cut down twice.

Seems like the only things left are “fast ga rhythm” and “new skill gaplay” as innovations.

And “ga rhythm” is highly subjective.

So prefer fast pace, others like slow, sneaky tactics.

As for the “new skill gaplay” innovation, it’s even more complicated.

“Five years ago, when motion-sensing pods just started mass production and market expansion, there was a ga with a design philosophy similar to our APEX,”

After Gu Sheng’s confirmation, Jiang Yun introduced:

“Gods’ Calamity, a first-person MOBA ga,”

“Which completely adopted MOBA settings but changed the perspective from top-down to first-person,”

“In the ga, players control heroes to perform normal attacks or release skills to destroy the enemy base and win.”

First-person LOL.

Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao raised an eyebrow: “Sounds pretty good?”

“Indeed,”

Jiang Yun nodded:

“In terms of innovation, it sounded great and initially attracted many players.”

“But,”

Jiang Yun’s tone shifted:

“The good tis didn’t last,”

“After the novelty wore off, the core problems of this ga beca apparent,”

“Although the design idea of ‘applying FPS perspective to MOBA gaplay’ was dazzling, these are two fundantally different genres, causing natural incompatibility,”

“MOBA gas require big-picture vision, strategic operations, and team cooperation,”

“And these core elents are hard to fully realize in FPS mode,”

“This made the ga’s core very twisted,”

“Without the overhead god’s-eye view, information reception was incomplete, affecting big-picture judgnts,”

“And without that, efficiency in lane switching, split pushing, or grouping dropped, hurting operations,”

“Plus the limitations of first-person view made team fights just a ss of skill spamming, with no focus or coordination,”

“Ultimately, the ga faded quickly and announced shutdown only seven months after release.”

Saying this, Jiang Yun sighed regretfully.

“That’s what we call—a good ga, but not fun.”

For any ga company worldwide, this phrase is deadly.

Obviously, Gods’ Calamity had a great reputation among players and professional designers.

Because its creative design was eye-catching, many, like Shen Miaomiao, initially thought it was interesting.

But after actual play, players found it awkward.

It had neither the charm of MOBA nor the thrill of FPS.

An undeniably excellent idea combined with a frustrating experience led to the final verdict—

A good ga, but not fun.

“And now,”

After Jiang Yun finished, Lu Bian continued:

“The APEX project we are preparing is essentially reversing the design idea of Gods’ Calamity—”

“We want to base it on FPS and apply MOBA-style skill design.”

Hiss—

After hearing all this, Shen Miaomiao understood.

She involuntarily took a deep breath.

Gu Sheng is truly twisted.

How did his brain grow like this?

PUBG debuted at the peak and is the ultimate battle royale.

Yet Gu Sheng still wants to challenge the peak he created.

Though she had been shocked by Gu Sheng’s creativity many tis before.

This ti, she couldn’t help but marvel inwardly.

Gu Sheng is truly special; his understanding of ga design is far beyond his age and experience.

However!

Admiring aside!

Shen Miaomiao understood the discussion of the project team clearly!

Right now!

The APEX project is extrely risky!

Genre-wise, it targets PUBG, which almost monopolizes the battle royale market!

Design-wise, it targets a ga called “good but not popular,” which was abandoned due to conflicting core gaplay!

This debuff is almost maxed out!

She even suspected Gu Sheng might be doing scientific research and not care much about APEX’s profit and loss.

Judging by current circumstances.

This project seems more like a challenge for Gu Sheng.

He wants to charge at the ga benchmark he created, even if it ends in defeat.

Hmm...

It must be like that.

Shen Miaomiao nodded silently.

After all, to guarantee stable profit and solid reputation, Gu Sheng only needs to do a conventional competitive ga, like “Smoke.”

But he insists on dancing on the edge of the knife, taking the unconventional path, challenging the impossible.

Not bad, not bad.

Shen Miaomiao was very satisfied.

If you have such integrity, we are on the sa level.

“I think it’s worth a try,”

Shen Miaomiao declared on the spot:

“Stagnation is not Golden Wind’s style,”

“Gods’ Calamity’s failure is regrettable, but for us, it might be a blessing,”

“Maybe they just flipped FPS and MOBA the wrong way,”

“After our twist, maybe we’ll succeed.”

Shen Miaomiao chuckled, signaling everyone not to feel pressured. Since she approved the project, she wouldn’t bla anyone for its failure.

Moreover,

Much of this project’s data was extracted from the Titanfall core, and the full cost was only fifty million.

Compared to their previous desperate efforts on PUBG and Titanfall, this was much better.

“So,” Shen Miaomiao said, “Don’t fear failure; just try. We can afford to lose.”

Hearing this, everyone smiled knowingly and said, “President Shen is so open-minded.”

“Hahaha, no need for flattery,”

Wearing a tall hat, Shen Miaomiao laughed and waved her hand:

“Since the ga content, design ideas, and investnt costs are settled,”

“Next is the last and most important matter—”

“Let’s discuss the ga’s profit model!”